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WATS HISTORICAL SOCIETY
HITT & LOftRY ST.
CuLUMBIl, MO. 65201
GT. 1C-5-- 74
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69th Year No. 65 GmmI Morning! i i"h Saturday Dm 4, 976 16 Pages 15 Cents Stories on page 8
In town
today
8:39 a.m. Governor's Con-ference
on Education, Jesse
Auditorium, University.
8:34 a.m. Christmas bazaar, St.
Andrews Lutheran Church.
9 a.m. Christmas bazaar,
Wilkes Blvd. United Methodist
Church.
9:39 a.m. Christmas bazaar,
Calvary Episcopal Church.
10 a.m. Writing and photo-graphy
techniques by photo-journalis- ts
Charles and Shirl
Brenneke, Charters Hall,
Stephens College.
10 a.m. Needlepoint Workshops
for Children, Columbia Public
library.
7i30 p.m. "Thomas Paine,"
University Theatre.
Exhibits
New: Davis Art Gallery,
Stephens College drawings,
paintings, photographs,
ceramics, cabinet work and
design projects for sale, 1:30 to 5
p.m. See Sunday Vibrations for
continuing exhibit schedules.
Sec page 15 for movie listings I J
Irasigfot
Midwives
delivering
nationwide
By Cheryl Noel v
Missourian staff writer
Deep in the heart of me Appalachians
a young woman swollen from nine
months of pregnancy suddenly feels the
nearness of life and signals her husband
of the pending arrival.
In their rundown mountain shack,
they live many miles from the nearest
doctor. The only help available is that
of a midwife in the next county who
traVela on horseback to reaeh-'th- e
frightened mother.
Well into the early morning hours the
midwife works over the mother.
Finally, the tiny, fragile infant makes
its entry into the world.
With the umbilical cord wrapped
around his neck, his chance of living
would have been extremely limited
without an experienced midwife to
handle the situation.
Although births of this type were
typical across the nation before the turn
of the century, they still are taking
place in states such as Kentucky, which
has many remote areas, says Alice
Robinson, an instructor of prepared
childbirth classes at Boone County
Hospital.
Almost all babies were delivered by
midwives before the turn of the
century, but the total has declined
dramatically from nine per cent in 1940
to less man one per cent in 1970.
With more advanced technology
being used in deliveries, the use of
midwives is gradually disappearing.
States are beginning to eliminate
unqualified midwives and are licensing
those specially trained in the field.
More than 1,500 nurse-midwiv- es
(those licensed and professionally
trained) are now practicing in the
United States. These people must pass
a national examination to become
certified by the American College of
Nurse-Midwive- s. But there are no
figures on how many unlicensed
midwives continue to practice.
Nineteen schools across the nation
teach nurse-midwifer- y, including the
St Louis University School of Nursing.
It operates a midwife training program
at St Louis Hospital No. 1, the Max
Starkloff Memorial Hospital.
Nurse-midwiv- es handle all aspects of
deliveries unless complications arise.
But their role is limited to providing
complete care to and management for
selected maternity patients under
qualified medical direction in
adherence to recommendations by the
(See MIDWIVES, page IS)
Carter names Vance
secretary of state
PLAINS, Ga. (UPI) Jimmy Carter
announced Friday that his secretary of
state will be Cyrus Vance, a seasoned
diplomatic negotiator and Washington
insider, and bis budget director will be
Atlanta banker Thomas Bertram
Lance, an old chum and business
associate.
Calling his first cabinet-leve- l appoint-ments
"superlative" choices, Carter
also told a news conference he probably
will have to take special steps, quickly,
to revive the economy but he has not
decided whether that will include a tax
cut or other types of action.
In any case, he said, he has "no
intention" of asking Congress for
authority to order anti-mfbtiona- ry
wage-pric- e controls because even "the
threat" of such controls can scare
industries into protective price hikes.
He cited the new rise in steel prices as
an example and said he tried, through
intermediaries, to prevent it.
Vance, 59, now a New York attorney,
indicated be will delegate negotiating
authority to qualified subordinates
much more than Secretary of State
Henry Kissinger has done, although he
will step in personally when necessary.
He said revival of progress in the
stalled U.S.-Sovi- et strategic arms talks
and the possibility of new U.S. peace
initiatives in the Middle East were
among his highest priorities
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Generally, however, Vance declined
to discuss the substance of policy
issues, saying he could not do so before
he has briefings with Kissinger and
other officials. A spokesman for
Kissinger said Vance and Kissinger are
scheduled to meet at the State Depart-ment
Monday afternoon.
Vance is an old Washington hand
renowned as a master bargainer in
touchy diplomatic negotiations. He
served as Army secretary in the
Kennedy administration, as deputy
defense secretary under Lyndon
Johnson and as a chief U.S. negotiator
at the Vietnam peace talks and the 1967
Cyprus talks.
Kissinger called Vance "an outstand-ing
choice" to succeed him and said
Vance will get all the information at his
disposal.
Both the Soviet Union and Israel
respect Vance and will have no
opposition to the appointment despite
Vance's divergent views on key issues,
diplomats said.
In Tel Aviv, Israeli officials noted
that Vance backs a general overall
peace settlement in the Middle East
rather than the step-by-st- ep approach
pursued by Kissinger.
The officials said privately that
Vance had met earlier this year with
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and
Foreign Minister Yigal Allon and that
"Vance is fully briefed on our
positions."
In Bonn, West Germany, Chancellor
Helmut Schmidt's government wel-comed
Vance's appointment, diplomats
said.
Diplomatic sources in Moscow
pointed out that Vance has visited the
Soviet Union before and is known to
Kremlin officials.
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President-ele- ct Jimmy Carter announced Friday he will
appoint Bert Lance as director of the Office of Management
and Budget. Lance is an Atlanta banker and friend of Carter.
(UPItelephoto)
City files charges against Rainbow
By Steve Rosen
RJissourian staff writer
The city has almost completed plans
for its latest court battle over alleged
housing code violations at 1113 Paquin
St. against Rainbow Car Wash
Manufacturing,' IncTthe owner of the
rooming house, and Ken Henderson,
who audits Rainbow's books.
Twelve counts alleging housing code
violations at the rooming house have
been filed in Municipal Court by City
Prosecutor Bill Orr. Orr had said 18
counts would be filed.
According to city inspectors, the
house has about 40 apparent housing
code violations which must be
corrected.
Orr said Friday a summons will be
served on Rainbow, & Steele, Mo., firm,
and Henderson within the next week. If
Rainbow and Henderson plead not
guilty, a trial in Municipal Court would
beset
Orr, however, did not say why only 12
counte of alleged code violations had
been filed.
The violations charged are :
A water heater in the basement is
covered with wallpaper, an apparent
fire hazard.
A room in the basement has cracks
in the ceiling.
A ceiling in a third floor bedroom
was not properly built with non-combusti- ble
materials.
Duty and unsanitary conditions
exist on the basement floor and the
floor tile is not ps operly installed.
A window has no glass.
There are holes in the exterior
walls.
A shower m a second floor
bathroom is improperly connected to
the water system.
There are holes in the floor m a
second floor bathroom.
The floor also needs painting.
The floor of the mam floor
batljroom is improperly installed and
unsanitary conditions exist in a first
floor bathroom.
The kitchen sink on the third floor is
not properly connected to the sewer
system.
Wall paneling in the basement is
not properly installed
The three-stor- y rooming house is
rented primarily to University
students
The housing code calls for a
maximum fme of $200 for each day
violations continue after the property
owner has been notified Orr has said he
would ask for the maximum penalty
and for reinstatement of a $750 fine
against Rainbow for housing code
violations at a rooming house at 309
Waugh St. The fine was suspended after
the firm brought the house to city
standards
Jack Fortner, president of Rainbow
Car Wash, owns rooming houses at 1113
Paquin St and 303, 305 and 309 Waugh
St. Fortner says Henderson, his son-i- n-law,
is the rental manager for the four
properties
Henderson, however, says he only
audits Rainbow's books and is not
responsible for maintaining the houses
Henderson owned the rooming house
at 1113 Paquin St. and houses at 303, 305
and 309 Waugh St until 1973
At that time, he was fined $200 in
Municipal Court for housing violations
at 309 Waugh St. and 1113 Paquin St
In 1975, Henderson was fined $100
after pleading guilty to a charge of
allowing a person to live in a basement
apartment at 309 Waugh St. after the
city declared the room unfit for human
occupation Rainbow also was fined
$900 for housing code violations, but
$750 of the fine was suspended
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Ralph Scott, Monnett school supervisor, discovered Friday
that there were moments of boredom during the Governor's
Schools may get $200 million over 4 years
By Chris Patterson, Jon Peck,
Donna House and Glnny Hilton
Missourian staff writers
The state will have the money $200
million over the nexrfour years to
pay for many of the improvements in
its public schools that the Governor's
Conference on Education is
recommending, Gov. Christopher S.
Bond and one of the legislature's most
powerful Democrats agreed Friday.
"If responsible fiscal policies and
priorities are maintained, we can
substantially increase state support of
education," Bond told the
approximately 700 delegates as he
officially opened the conference in
Jesse Hall
Sen. Norman Merrell, D-Montic-ello,
Conference on Education. At left is Robert Bartman of the
state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.
outgoing chairman of the Senate
Appropriations Committee and
incoming Senate president pro tem,
agreed.
Merrell recently recommended a $48
million increase in state aid to schools,
provided the legislature adopt a new
school aid formula. That new formula is
being recommended by the educational
finance committee to the conference.
So far, the conference also has :
Recommended a constitutional
amendment providing that passage of
school bond issues and tax levies
require only a simple majority instead
of the present two-third- s.
Recommended development of a
plan for improving services to
(See TEACHERS, page IS)
New spray
clamps down
on cavities
BOSTON (UPI) Researchers have
reported the successful testing of a
chemical that breaks down decayed
tooth material and flushes it away .
The chemical, GK-10- 1, developed
over a five-ye- ar period at the Tufts Uni-versity
School of Dental Medicine,
allows dentists to prepare decayed
teeth for filling without having to use
the drill.
"The advantage of the spray is that it
reduces the element of pain and also
conserves the healthy portion of the
tooth," Dr. Melvin Goldman said.
Goldman and Dr. Joseph H, Kronman
reported in the current issue of the
Journal of the American Dental Asso-ciation
that 50 patients were treated by
the process for 61 cavities. They said
the process removed the decay
completely from 58 cavities and
partially from the three others.
The researchers said 1,000 patients
have undergone generally sucessful
treatment in Boston and Japan since
the experimental process was first
announced two years ago. Goldman
said it will be at least another two years
before the process is released.
Doctors debate value of cancer programs group
By Dan PttierandTom Klein
Mbseartaastaff writers
Two doctors disagreed Friday about
the merits of Missouri Cancer
Programs, Inc., a nonprofit corporation
chartered in 1975 to coordinate cancer
research efforts in Missouri.
By mobilizing medical facilities in
Ifissouri, thecorporation can become a
national cancer research center and
qualify for federal funding that would
otherwise be unavailable, said Dr. John
Yabro, its executive director
and chairman of the department of
oncology at the University School of
Medicine.
But Dr. John Spratt said the program
i
m
creates problems for Ellis Fiscbel State
Cancer Hospital and the private Cancer
Research Center. Dr. Spratt likened the
corporation to a "web" that "milks
public institutions" and causes
"employe morale to decline."
Dr. Spratt resigned as executive
director of the (dancer Research Center
Aug.l.
Both doctors testified before the
cancer research subcommittee
meeting of the Missouri House
Appropriations Committee at the
Cancer Research Center in Columbia.
Dr. Yabro said mat without MCPI the
Cancer Research Center and the
University medical school would not
have any federal aid' for a national
it '
cancer research center. The
corporation received $1.7 million in
cancer research funds last year, Yabro
said.
But Dr. Spratt called it a
"bureaucratic superstructure" that
has too much authority- - The
corporation's overall impact on a
public institution "is that good people
get bypassed and then they quit when
they find out that interest in the
superstructure is of greater interest
man patient care," he added.
One employe of Ellis FischerHospital
echoed Dr. Spratt's sentiments in
testimony to the subcommittee. Elsie
Lee, .1906 Rose Drive, told the
subcommittee mat she was told the
corporation had no control over the
hospital, but when the former director
of nurses tried to hire an assistant
nurse, the director was told the
corporation would not approve the
.appointment
Another employe of Ellis Fischel, Dr.
Nestor Canoy, director of the radiation
therapy department and chief of the
hospital staff, did not agree with Dr.
Spratt's conclusion that MCPI lowered
employe fnoffllfit
"I fed the majority of the people in
tiiis hospital are good people. Take
three weeks ago as an example. We
have two cobalt radiation machines and
one of them broke down. For the past
three weeks while we were getting the
machine fixed the people in the
department worked 12 hours a day
without (extra) compensation and they
haven't complained."
Dr. Charles Mengel, chairman of the
University medical school department
of medicine, and University Chancellor
Herbert Schooling testified in support
of the corporation.
In other subcommittee action, State
Rep. John Rollins, D-Colum- bia,
questioned Dr. Herbert Domke about a
possible conflict of interest.
Dr. Domke is director of the Missouri
Division of Health and also serves as a
board member of MCPI. fit seems to
me that you are in violation of the
conflict of interest statute," Rollins
said.
Dr. Domke said he had always
interpreted conflict of interest as
securing personal gain.
"It doesn't say anything about
personal gain, just that you can't do it,"
Rollins responded.
Chairman Joe Holt of Fulton and
Rep. Carrol McCubbin of Eldon are the
other subcommittee members.
Holt said he is optimistic because
both sides presented their views at the
meeting. He said the subcommittee
would issue a report to the legislature
on the testimony, but was unsure
whether there would be another
session.

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WATS HISTORICAL SOCIETY
HITT & LOftRY ST.
CuLUMBIl, MO. 65201
GT. 1C-5-- 74
(tm k$ JMb4X4 iWXjst4lX " Sfcow-M-e results
mr & WpxtyWWfyF W & r --W"W W&W North Texas 62, St. Louis 60
69th Year No. 65 GmmI Morning! i i"h Saturday Dm 4, 976 16 Pages 15 Cents Stories on page 8
In town
today
8:39 a.m. Governor's Con-ference
on Education, Jesse
Auditorium, University.
8:34 a.m. Christmas bazaar, St.
Andrews Lutheran Church.
9 a.m. Christmas bazaar,
Wilkes Blvd. United Methodist
Church.
9:39 a.m. Christmas bazaar,
Calvary Episcopal Church.
10 a.m. Writing and photo-graphy
techniques by photo-journalis- ts
Charles and Shirl
Brenneke, Charters Hall,
Stephens College.
10 a.m. Needlepoint Workshops
for Children, Columbia Public
library.
7i30 p.m. "Thomas Paine,"
University Theatre.
Exhibits
New: Davis Art Gallery,
Stephens College drawings,
paintings, photographs,
ceramics, cabinet work and
design projects for sale, 1:30 to 5
p.m. See Sunday Vibrations for
continuing exhibit schedules.
Sec page 15 for movie listings I J
Irasigfot
Midwives
delivering
nationwide
By Cheryl Noel v
Missourian staff writer
Deep in the heart of me Appalachians
a young woman swollen from nine
months of pregnancy suddenly feels the
nearness of life and signals her husband
of the pending arrival.
In their rundown mountain shack,
they live many miles from the nearest
doctor. The only help available is that
of a midwife in the next county who
traVela on horseback to reaeh-'th- e
frightened mother.
Well into the early morning hours the
midwife works over the mother.
Finally, the tiny, fragile infant makes
its entry into the world.
With the umbilical cord wrapped
around his neck, his chance of living
would have been extremely limited
without an experienced midwife to
handle the situation.
Although births of this type were
typical across the nation before the turn
of the century, they still are taking
place in states such as Kentucky, which
has many remote areas, says Alice
Robinson, an instructor of prepared
childbirth classes at Boone County
Hospital.
Almost all babies were delivered by
midwives before the turn of the
century, but the total has declined
dramatically from nine per cent in 1940
to less man one per cent in 1970.
With more advanced technology
being used in deliveries, the use of
midwives is gradually disappearing.
States are beginning to eliminate
unqualified midwives and are licensing
those specially trained in the field.
More than 1,500 nurse-midwiv- es
(those licensed and professionally
trained) are now practicing in the
United States. These people must pass
a national examination to become
certified by the American College of
Nurse-Midwive- s. But there are no
figures on how many unlicensed
midwives continue to practice.
Nineteen schools across the nation
teach nurse-midwifer- y, including the
St Louis University School of Nursing.
It operates a midwife training program
at St Louis Hospital No. 1, the Max
Starkloff Memorial Hospital.
Nurse-midwiv- es handle all aspects of
deliveries unless complications arise.
But their role is limited to providing
complete care to and management for
selected maternity patients under
qualified medical direction in
adherence to recommendations by the
(See MIDWIVES, page IS)
Carter names Vance
secretary of state
PLAINS, Ga. (UPI) Jimmy Carter
announced Friday that his secretary of
state will be Cyrus Vance, a seasoned
diplomatic negotiator and Washington
insider, and bis budget director will be
Atlanta banker Thomas Bertram
Lance, an old chum and business
associate.
Calling his first cabinet-leve- l appoint-ments
"superlative" choices, Carter
also told a news conference he probably
will have to take special steps, quickly,
to revive the economy but he has not
decided whether that will include a tax
cut or other types of action.
In any case, he said, he has "no
intention" of asking Congress for
authority to order anti-mfbtiona- ry
wage-pric- e controls because even "the
threat" of such controls can scare
industries into protective price hikes.
He cited the new rise in steel prices as
an example and said he tried, through
intermediaries, to prevent it.
Vance, 59, now a New York attorney,
indicated be will delegate negotiating
authority to qualified subordinates
much more than Secretary of State
Henry Kissinger has done, although he
will step in personally when necessary.
He said revival of progress in the
stalled U.S.-Sovi- et strategic arms talks
and the possibility of new U.S. peace
initiatives in the Middle East were
among his highest priorities
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CyrngVeace mMt&
To replace Kisstagev
Generally, however, Vance declined
to discuss the substance of policy
issues, saying he could not do so before
he has briefings with Kissinger and
other officials. A spokesman for
Kissinger said Vance and Kissinger are
scheduled to meet at the State Depart-ment
Monday afternoon.
Vance is an old Washington hand
renowned as a master bargainer in
touchy diplomatic negotiations. He
served as Army secretary in the
Kennedy administration, as deputy
defense secretary under Lyndon
Johnson and as a chief U.S. negotiator
at the Vietnam peace talks and the 1967
Cyprus talks.
Kissinger called Vance "an outstand-ing
choice" to succeed him and said
Vance will get all the information at his
disposal.
Both the Soviet Union and Israel
respect Vance and will have no
opposition to the appointment despite
Vance's divergent views on key issues,
diplomats said.
In Tel Aviv, Israeli officials noted
that Vance backs a general overall
peace settlement in the Middle East
rather than the step-by-st- ep approach
pursued by Kissinger.
The officials said privately that
Vance had met earlier this year with
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and
Foreign Minister Yigal Allon and that
"Vance is fully briefed on our
positions."
In Bonn, West Germany, Chancellor
Helmut Schmidt's government wel-comed
Vance's appointment, diplomats
said.
Diplomatic sources in Moscow
pointed out that Vance has visited the
Soviet Union before and is known to
Kremlin officials.
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President-ele- ct Jimmy Carter announced Friday he will
appoint Bert Lance as director of the Office of Management
and Budget. Lance is an Atlanta banker and friend of Carter.
(UPItelephoto)
City files charges against Rainbow
By Steve Rosen
RJissourian staff writer
The city has almost completed plans
for its latest court battle over alleged
housing code violations at 1113 Paquin
St. against Rainbow Car Wash
Manufacturing,' IncTthe owner of the
rooming house, and Ken Henderson,
who audits Rainbow's books.
Twelve counts alleging housing code
violations at the rooming house have
been filed in Municipal Court by City
Prosecutor Bill Orr. Orr had said 18
counts would be filed.
According to city inspectors, the
house has about 40 apparent housing
code violations which must be
corrected.
Orr said Friday a summons will be
served on Rainbow, & Steele, Mo., firm,
and Henderson within the next week. If
Rainbow and Henderson plead not
guilty, a trial in Municipal Court would
beset
Orr, however, did not say why only 12
counte of alleged code violations had
been filed.
The violations charged are :
A water heater in the basement is
covered with wallpaper, an apparent
fire hazard.
A room in the basement has cracks
in the ceiling.
A ceiling in a third floor bedroom
was not properly built with non-combusti- ble
materials.
Duty and unsanitary conditions
exist on the basement floor and the
floor tile is not ps operly installed.
A window has no glass.
There are holes in the exterior
walls.
A shower m a second floor
bathroom is improperly connected to
the water system.
There are holes in the floor m a
second floor bathroom.
The floor also needs painting.
The floor of the mam floor
batljroom is improperly installed and
unsanitary conditions exist in a first
floor bathroom.
The kitchen sink on the third floor is
not properly connected to the sewer
system.
Wall paneling in the basement is
not properly installed
The three-stor- y rooming house is
rented primarily to University
students
The housing code calls for a
maximum fme of $200 for each day
violations continue after the property
owner has been notified Orr has said he
would ask for the maximum penalty
and for reinstatement of a $750 fine
against Rainbow for housing code
violations at a rooming house at 309
Waugh St. The fine was suspended after
the firm brought the house to city
standards
Jack Fortner, president of Rainbow
Car Wash, owns rooming houses at 1113
Paquin St and 303, 305 and 309 Waugh
St. Fortner says Henderson, his son-i- n-law,
is the rental manager for the four
properties
Henderson, however, says he only
audits Rainbow's books and is not
responsible for maintaining the houses
Henderson owned the rooming house
at 1113 Paquin St. and houses at 303, 305
and 309 Waugh St until 1973
At that time, he was fined $200 in
Municipal Court for housing violations
at 309 Waugh St. and 1113 Paquin St
In 1975, Henderson was fined $100
after pleading guilty to a charge of
allowing a person to live in a basement
apartment at 309 Waugh St. after the
city declared the room unfit for human
occupation Rainbow also was fined
$900 for housing code violations, but
$750 of the fine was suspended
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Ralph Scott, Monnett school supervisor, discovered Friday
that there were moments of boredom during the Governor's
Schools may get $200 million over 4 years
By Chris Patterson, Jon Peck,
Donna House and Glnny Hilton
Missourian staff writers
The state will have the money $200
million over the nexrfour years to
pay for many of the improvements in
its public schools that the Governor's
Conference on Education is
recommending, Gov. Christopher S.
Bond and one of the legislature's most
powerful Democrats agreed Friday.
"If responsible fiscal policies and
priorities are maintained, we can
substantially increase state support of
education," Bond told the
approximately 700 delegates as he
officially opened the conference in
Jesse Hall
Sen. Norman Merrell, D-Montic-ello,
Conference on Education. At left is Robert Bartman of the
state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.
outgoing chairman of the Senate
Appropriations Committee and
incoming Senate president pro tem,
agreed.
Merrell recently recommended a $48
million increase in state aid to schools,
provided the legislature adopt a new
school aid formula. That new formula is
being recommended by the educational
finance committee to the conference.
So far, the conference also has :
Recommended a constitutional
amendment providing that passage of
school bond issues and tax levies
require only a simple majority instead
of the present two-third- s.
Recommended development of a
plan for improving services to
(See TEACHERS, page IS)
New spray
clamps down
on cavities
BOSTON (UPI) Researchers have
reported the successful testing of a
chemical that breaks down decayed
tooth material and flushes it away .
The chemical, GK-10- 1, developed
over a five-ye- ar period at the Tufts Uni-versity
School of Dental Medicine,
allows dentists to prepare decayed
teeth for filling without having to use
the drill.
"The advantage of the spray is that it
reduces the element of pain and also
conserves the healthy portion of the
tooth," Dr. Melvin Goldman said.
Goldman and Dr. Joseph H, Kronman
reported in the current issue of the
Journal of the American Dental Asso-ciation
that 50 patients were treated by
the process for 61 cavities. They said
the process removed the decay
completely from 58 cavities and
partially from the three others.
The researchers said 1,000 patients
have undergone generally sucessful
treatment in Boston and Japan since
the experimental process was first
announced two years ago. Goldman
said it will be at least another two years
before the process is released.
Doctors debate value of cancer programs group
By Dan PttierandTom Klein
Mbseartaastaff writers
Two doctors disagreed Friday about
the merits of Missouri Cancer
Programs, Inc., a nonprofit corporation
chartered in 1975 to coordinate cancer
research efforts in Missouri.
By mobilizing medical facilities in
Ifissouri, thecorporation can become a
national cancer research center and
qualify for federal funding that would
otherwise be unavailable, said Dr. John
Yabro, its executive director
and chairman of the department of
oncology at the University School of
Medicine.
But Dr. John Spratt said the program
i
m
creates problems for Ellis Fiscbel State
Cancer Hospital and the private Cancer
Research Center. Dr. Spratt likened the
corporation to a "web" that "milks
public institutions" and causes
"employe morale to decline."
Dr. Spratt resigned as executive
director of the (dancer Research Center
Aug.l.
Both doctors testified before the
cancer research subcommittee
meeting of the Missouri House
Appropriations Committee at the
Cancer Research Center in Columbia.
Dr. Yabro said mat without MCPI the
Cancer Research Center and the
University medical school would not
have any federal aid' for a national
it '
cancer research center. The
corporation received $1.7 million in
cancer research funds last year, Yabro
said.
But Dr. Spratt called it a
"bureaucratic superstructure" that
has too much authority- - The
corporation's overall impact on a
public institution "is that good people
get bypassed and then they quit when
they find out that interest in the
superstructure is of greater interest
man patient care," he added.
One employe of Ellis FischerHospital
echoed Dr. Spratt's sentiments in
testimony to the subcommittee. Elsie
Lee, .1906 Rose Drive, told the
subcommittee mat she was told the
corporation had no control over the
hospital, but when the former director
of nurses tried to hire an assistant
nurse, the director was told the
corporation would not approve the
.appointment
Another employe of Ellis Fischel, Dr.
Nestor Canoy, director of the radiation
therapy department and chief of the
hospital staff, did not agree with Dr.
Spratt's conclusion that MCPI lowered
employe fnoffllfit
"I fed the majority of the people in
tiiis hospital are good people. Take
three weeks ago as an example. We
have two cobalt radiation machines and
one of them broke down. For the past
three weeks while we were getting the
machine fixed the people in the
department worked 12 hours a day
without (extra) compensation and they
haven't complained."
Dr. Charles Mengel, chairman of the
University medical school department
of medicine, and University Chancellor
Herbert Schooling testified in support
of the corporation.
In other subcommittee action, State
Rep. John Rollins, D-Colum- bia,
questioned Dr. Herbert Domke about a
possible conflict of interest.
Dr. Domke is director of the Missouri
Division of Health and also serves as a
board member of MCPI. fit seems to
me that you are in violation of the
conflict of interest statute," Rollins
said.
Dr. Domke said he had always
interpreted conflict of interest as
securing personal gain.
"It doesn't say anything about
personal gain, just that you can't do it,"
Rollins responded.
Chairman Joe Holt of Fulton and
Rep. Carrol McCubbin of Eldon are the
other subcommittee members.
Holt said he is optimistic because
both sides presented their views at the
meeting. He said the subcommittee
would issue a report to the legislature
on the testimony, but was unsure
whether there would be another
session.